Soul Craft Counseling Blog

As a telehealth therapist for clients with complex chronic illness, I often receive requests that most therapists who don't work with this client demographic receive. This is one of the ways I create affirming space for clients with chronic health issues; nothing is "too weird" to talk about here.

Finding a therapist who “gets it” when you have a chronic illness can be tough. The therapeutic space should be a place where you feel deeply understood, but sometimes for those with complex health conditions, disability or chronic pain, it can be another experience that compounds the isolation of living in a body that doesn't operate the way other bodies do. However, there are therapists out there that have set out to specifically combat the isolation that individuals with c

As a trauma therapist that specializes in complex chronic illness, many of the clients that reach out to me have tried what we often label as "brain retraining programs". DNRS, or Dynamic Neural Retraining System, and programs like Primal Trust focus on rewiring the limbic system to interrupt its threat detection loop that it's stuck in. They work off of the premise of neuroplasticity, and use tools like positive affirmation, positive visualization and behavioral modification